Heart Of The Beast Puppet Theater has lots of delightful props and murals sprinkled throughout the building.
Almost finished with this leg of the tour. I'm ready to snuggle my own kitties and sprawl on a king size bed right about now.
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Happy #HumpDay y’all! 🐪 Can’t help but look back at these beautiful ladies as I leave the office for the day. Definitely makes me look forward to coming back in the morning. This will make the late work nights more enjoyable with the new @SandraChevrier to keep my first Sandra and the @FinDAC ladies company.

Definitely having Woman Crush Wednesday vibes with this new lady at work. 😍 This @SandraChevrier and @GraffitiPrints print “La Cage et le cœur de la bête” (The Cage and the heart of the beast) is the stunning 25 colors silk screen prints produced at @Goldmark_Atelier were available in four variations including this gorgeous edition of 25. Finishing touch is always by the amazing @IveBeenFramedMiami team who never fails to turn out an amazing presentation.

Ever turn around and feel everyone has their eyes on you? Got my way at work and boss put this beautiful lady at the end of my hall. Now my corner office has one hell of an amazing view. A new @SandraChevrier to keep my first Sandra and the @FinDAC ladies company.

I don't like making political puppetry work because honestly, it feels like preaching to the choir. If you meet a puppeteer, chances are they are liberal as heck and have also worked on a puppet show made out of recycled materials and decrying Republicans/climate change denyers/big pharma etc. But Trump's recent tweets about four congresswomen of color have stuck with me in a way that has cut through all the awfulness this administration spews out on a daily basis and I had to put my feelings into a show.
I am proud to be a naturalized US citizen. Sure, I'm from England, so no Republican is going to tell me to go back to my country. I know that I live with the privilege of having come from a European country. But as a kid new to the States, it felt like I couldn't go a day without someone making fun of the way I spoke or the way I didn't have the same cultural references. Teachers would repeat things that I'd said in class in a fake British accent, drawing the whole class's attention to the way I spoke rather than the content of my answers. One called me "her little redcoat" as we learned about the revolutionary war. So yes -privilege- but I know a little of what it's like to be identified first as a representative of the country you were born in and have your personhood come second. Even though there are still aspects of US culture that seem foreign to me, I have made a happy life for myself here, as have my parents. I love living here.
I became a US citizen in Minnesota. I took my first breath and my first steps as a US citizen in this state. So when Donald Trump tells my Minnesota congresswoman to go back to the country she came from, it feels personal. This is Ilhan's country as much as it is any other citizen's. We have to fight against this ugly, racist rhetoric. I can vote for the very first time in a presidential election next year. Ilhan is not going anywhere, and neither am I. (Thanks to Great Small Works for providing a toy theater workshop where I learned the mechanics of toy theatre! And thanks to @veerapaneera) #istandwithilhan#minneapolis#minnesota#vote#ilhanomar#puppet#puppetry#heartofthebeast#theater#theatre#toytheatre#art#politics